Ecclesiastes 6:7

Bible in Basic English 1965

All the work of man is for his mouth, and still he has a desire for food.

Cross References

Proverbs 16:26

The desire of the working man is working for him, for his need of food is driving him on.

Ecclesiastes 1:8

All things are full of weariness; man may not give their story: the eye has never enough of its seeing, or the ear of its hearing.

Ecclesiastes 5:10

He who has a love for silver never has enough silver, or he who has love for wealth, enough profit. This again is to no purpose.

Ecclesiastes 5:9

It is good generally for a country where the land is worked to have a king.

Ecclesiastes 6:3

If a man has a hundred children, and his life is long so that the days of his years are great in number, but his soul takes no pleasure in good, and he is not honoured at his death; I say that a birth before its time is better than he.

Ecclesiastes 6:8

What have the wise more than the foolish? and what has the poor man by walking wisely before the living?

Matthew 6:25

So I say to you, Take no thought for your life, about food or drink, or about clothing for your body. Is not life more than food, and the body more than its clothing?

Luke 12:19

And I will say to my soul, Soul, you have a great amount of goods in store, enough for a number of years; be at rest, take food and wine and be happy.

John 6:27

Let your work not be for the food which comes to an end, but for the food which goes on for eternal life, which the Son of man will give to you, for on him has God the Father put his mark.